Impulse Quotes

827 quotes by 628 authors

A lot of people go off and have fun adventures, or hard adventures, and their impulse is to write about them right away. What really… — Cheryl Strayed
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. — Martin Puryear
I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager. — Eugene Jarvis
Faith is the "eternal elixir" which gives life, power and action to the impulse of thought! Faith is the starting point of all accumulation of… — Napoleon Hill
Some things are up to us [eph' hÃªmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses,… — Epictetus
It will come all right in the end. There is the steady impulse of your determination that sets you on your feet again after every… — Ramana Maharshi
You write something and thereâ€™s no reality to it. You canâ€™t inject it with any kind of reality. You have to be patient and keep… — Deborah Eisenberg
Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse — Chogyam Trungpa
It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it;… — Aleister Crowley
I must always have a clear image of the form of a work before I begin. Otherwise there is no impulse to create. — Barbara Hepworth
The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapor, soot and flame,… — Johann Joachim Becher
Resist Impulses to Label Yourself with Descriptions that Limit You in Any Way. — Wayne Dyer
Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of… — Rutherford B. Hayes
In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is… — Robert Fripp
Physical pain is not a simple affair of an impulse, travelling at a fixed rate along a nerve. It is the resultant of a conflict… — Rene Leriche
Blind hate against the enemy creates a forceful impulse that cracks the boundaries of natural human limitations, transforming the soldier in an effective, selective and… — Che Guevara
The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because… — Robert Olen Butler
I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader… — John Philip Sousa
No word is capable of carrying the impulses one wants to send with it — Isidore Isou
Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe… — Samuel Alexander

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